Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints.

(Beyond Pesticides, July 26, 2024) Beyond Pesticides released the latest issue of Pesticides and You this week, a compendium of scientific research on pesticide threats to human and environmental ...

Boston Scientific has issued a recall for certain ENDOTAK RELIANCE Defibrillation leads due to their polytetrafluoroethylene coated coils requiring early replacement. The ENDOTAK RELIANCE is used for ...

“The Quantum Observer,” by Anil Ananthaswamy [July/August], notes that outcomes in quantum mechanics depend on observations and asks whether the observer must be a human being. It seems very ...

In 2020, on a trip to Devon, England, Jennifer N. R. Smith (above) went swimming in the sea. Just as night fell, the water began to glow with light from bioluminescent algae. “It’s electric blue,” she ...

Paul Alexander (known as “Polio Paul” on social media) died at age 78 in a Dallas hospital earlier this month. He was 6 years old in 1952 when he contracted polio, just three years before the ...

In 350 B.C.E. Aristotle noted that some people went about their days with what he called “short sight.” People with this condition, he found, would habitually narrow their eyelids to focus their ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from unstable jobs to opaque journals, might feel abstract to non-scientists, but they ...